"The City, after all" is a podcast series about the city and its future (6 episodes, first season)
This award is supported in a podcast format as a dissemination channel - open to educate the general public - and to reach specialized profiles and researchers, but also citizens and social agent involved in the problems that today concern the city: from the territorial imbalance (Ep. 1) to the problematic of food distribution (Ep. 2), healthy environment through mobility (Pd. 3), economic equilibrium (Pd. 4) or the technologies as part of the intangibles that cities manage to change (Pd. 5).
Cross-border/international
Spain
Other
Countries throughout EU, without limitation given the free and open access of these podcast.
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Countries throughout EU, without limitation given the free and open access of these series.
The Spanish language is preferred in communication, although every episode (except 1.st) have had a mixed original mixed version in Spanish and English, preserving the native language of each guest.
Mainly urban
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)
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No
Yes
As a representative of an organisation
Name of the organisation(s): Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad (FAyS) / Architecture and Society Foundation Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation First name of representative: Irene Last name of representative: De la Red García Gender: Female Nationality: Spain Function: Director of Fundación Arquitectura y Sociedad, FAyS (Architecture and Society Foundation) Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Calle Iturralde y Suit, 3-5 Town: Pamplona (Navarra) Postal code: 31004 Country: Spain Direct Tel:+34 915 41 26 79 E-mail:irene.delared@arquitecturaysociedad.com Website:https://arquitecturaysociedad.com/
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Email from Director of MITMA (Spanish Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda)
"The city, after all" is a series of podcasts about the present and future of our cities and how they change every day; or how we inhabit cities, but not just about architecture. Each episode, a theme : economy, mobility, food or technology are essential actors in the difficult art of living together.
Initiative launched in December 2021 with which the FAyS Foundation addresses a new way of disseminating the social function of architecture with a radio format, free access and wide reach among the population.
The 1st season of the podcast is dedicated to researching and disseminating the main challenges and problems currently present in our cities. Based on contemporary published sources and interviews conducted with three experts, topics such as depopulation, food, mobility, the economy, science and technology or energy are addressed in a monographic manner in each episode.
Authoritative voices such as Carolyn Steel, Carlos Moreno, Kate Crawford or Edward Glaeser have left their profound reflections in interviews that are intended to be a window for the transfer of knowledge, on the Foundation's commitment to thought and dissemination.
Mission and objectives
The podcast was born from the conviction that architecture can be a powerful tool for social change. The intention of the project appeals to people with an interest in the social, economic, technological and scientific dynamics that cities foster in the current context and wish to form a more informed and critical opinion through the list of works and professional experiences of relevant figures in those fields. A previous investigation that connects and relates them to the historical moment in which we live helps a general public to be interested in acquiring perspective and knowledge on topics and investigations that are generally disclosed in less accessible formats.
Its mission is to show the social function of architecture and its interaction with other disciplines that are part of every day.
Cities
Sustainability
Urban economics
Mobility
Technology
Episode 3
• Title: "The city in motion"
• Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
• Published: March 18, 2022
• Bilingual edition available
• Interviews: Jan Gehl, Carlos Moreno and Inma Martínez.
Enrique Peñalosa has been mayor of Bogotá on two occasions. In a city dominated by traffic jams or traffic jams, he was able to see that the solution was not to give more space to the car, but to encourage people with fewer resources to move better. And he left a memorable phrase: "An advanced city is not one in which the poor have a car, but one in which even the rich use public transport."
Although it sounds very good, it reflects only part of the necessary path. In the big cities, we have created parks where we used to have highways, but we have also managed to expel the population from the centers, with which many people are forced to take their car every morning to go to work. The situation leads to a major environmental problem —more or less, 30% of CO2 emissions in the world come from means of transport— which also affects our health and the consistency of the social fabric.
How to turn mobility into a right? Can we really do without the car at some point? In this programme, The City in Motion, the different solutions and models that concern urban mobility in large cities are addressed, from the pedestrian to the autonomous car, based on the contributions made through research and practice. three guests who have addressed the issue and its problems from very different facets: the architect Jan Gehl, a world reference in the human condition of public space; Carlos Moreno, researcher at the Sorbonne and advisor to the city of Paris for the implementation of the model 'The city of fifteen minutes'; and, finally, Inma Martínez, an expert in Artificial Intelligence and in the autonomous car industry.
Episode 2
• Title: "Feeding the City"
• Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes
• Published: 15 January 2022
• Bilingual edition available
• Interviews: Carolyn Steel, Marcela Villarreal and Martín Caparrós.
By 2030, there will be 40 cities with more than 10 million inhabitants and, by 2050, two thirds of the world's population will live in urban areas. How are we going to feed those megacities? In this special program, "Feeding the City" the different ramifications of the food chain, from crops to waste, are addressed for 90 minutes.
There is a certain consensus that the quality of our diet is directly proportional to GDP. Thus, the desirable improvement in our standard of living must be accompanied by food quality and safety that are by no means guaranteed. Given this uncertainty, the future only seems to have one meaning: to feed the ten billion human beings that we will be in 2050, we will have to cultivate new land, pay more for energy, meet the demand for new middle class of two giants, India and China, and, above all, doing it in an environmentally and economically sustainable way.
It is a challenge in which cities, the large consumers, will have to play a leading role. Can they feed without regard to the field? Should food be an economic asset? How can we face the two great food deficiencies of our world, hunger and obesity? What role do new initiatives play, from synthetic meat to urban crops?
Feeding the City, the second episode of this podcast series, is a program that addresses precisely those relationships between home and food, from antiquity to the future, with three guests who have approached the subject in very different ways. Rents: Carolyn Steel with Hungry Cities, A Complete State of the Art; Marcela Villarreal, as representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); and, finally, the journalist and writer Martín Caparrós, author of 'Hunger'.
Episode 5
• Title: "The City of Intangibles"
• Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes
• Published: December 1, 2022
• Bilingual edition available
• Interviews: José Carlos Arnal and Daniel Sarasa, Kate Crawford and Carlos Barrabés"
"Technology is the answer, but what was the question?" Pronounced more than half a century ago, Cedric Price's phrase resonates with more force than ever in contemporary cities, increasingly devoted to information technology. From traffic or logistics to energy management, they make up an invisible network whose impact is felt in all the processes that make up our day to day.
However, this world of apps and intangibles arouses almost as many expectations as questions. On the one hand, digitization could contribute to territorial balance, but one of its main assets, that of data, not only privileges urban concentrations, but also offers itself as the new scenario for the struggle between private companies. and the public powers. This is not to mention the uncertainties regarding employment, both in quality and quantity, which seem to characterize this new era.
In this program dedicated to technology in the city, the different frictions of innovation are addressed, from who decides on digital to the earthly consequences of the 'cloud' through three conversations with experts of very different depths: José Carlos Arnal and Daniel Sarasa, authors of Ciudad abierta, ciudad digital; Australian academic Kate Crawford, who has just published the Atlas of Artificial Intelligence in Spanish, and Carlos Barrabés, one of the pioneers of electronic commerce in Spain.
Episode 4
• Title: "Economy and city"
• Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes
• Published: July 18, 2022
• Bilingual edition available
• Interviews: Edward Glaeser, Milena Almagro and Jorge Dioni López.
The economy is usually thought of as an abstract matter, of indices and deficits, and that seems to connect the government of the countries with their own pocket. However, there are certain intermediate states that affect us all and are reflected in the immediate environment. In Spain, for example, the service sector represents more than 70% of employment and Gross Domestic Product. And those services depend on face-to-face contact, on our tendency to group together: they are, for the most part, urban.
Cities are our centers of economic activity, but which ones, those of the rich or those of the poor, as Plato distinguished in his Republic? Everything counts. Maintaining or demolishing a building is not an aesthetic issue, but affects everyone's pocket, and other recipes that we considered safe, such as the construction of large equipment, do not seem to be the solution. On the other hand, the progressive increase in the cost of urban life has displaced the population to the peripheries, with disastrous economic and environmental consequences. The question may be another. What does it mean, today, to grow?
In this program dedicated to «Economy and the city», the different aspects of urban exchange are addressed, from the creation of large capital attractors to changes in the productive system, through three guests who have addressed the topic from complementary facets: Edward Glaeser, professor at Harvard and author of The Triumph of the Cities; Milena Almagro, urban economist and professor at the Booth School in Chicago; and, finally, Jorge Dioni López, author of one of the essays with the greatest impact in the last year, La España de las piscinas, a chronicle on how neoliberal urbanism has altered the political and economic map of our country.
The focus of this podcast program is holistic and interdisciplinary: science, technology and humanities are articulated around the knowledge of the city, as an urban fact, as a socio-productive environment and as the challenge that must be faced from the political management of the next decades.
Its main objective is, therefore, to achieve the maximum social impact from this communication activity.
First season of the podcast is a content that reflects interdisciplinary objetives about the strategic design that would be the focus in the cities in the next decades:
1. From the city to the countryside: the narrated story.
2. Feeding the city: policies for food sustainability.
3. The city in motion: mobility as a paradigm.
4. Economy and the city: progress, housing and well-being.
5. The city of intangibles: technology.
6. The energy of cities: crisis and climate change.
1. Although the podcast format is common in entertainment and leisure programs, this series is part of the field of scientific dissemination. To do this, the directors previously make a selection from contemporary sources and 3 expert voices are chosen (from the perspective of cross-research through triangulation) to filter in each program a directed, but plural analysis of each topic.
2. The format created encourages dissemination and debate on each of the proposed themes. It is, therefore, about informing and adding to the transfer of knowledge the changes that must be assumed by society and that represent the keys to the future of cities through contemporary voices of recognized trajectory (all the interviewees are well-known researchers and in 90% of the cases they have books of their authorship and very recent publication; the effort made in the "Bibliography" section that is freely offered on the official website of the program with the publication of each episode is considered of great interest :(https://arquitecturaysociedad.com/podcast/, since it makes it easier to expand the investigation to anyone interested).
In this sense, it is considered that the initiative can be considered a particularly significant and innovative contribution to the dissemination of knowledge, as cited in the bases of this award.
3. Substantive and formal quality of the communication works developed. The monographic structure of each topic responds to a critical essay monographic structure: each episode begins with an editorial, continues to be presented through a brief biographical profile of each guest and each intervention (interview) is inserted in a conversational format.
1. This award is supported in a podcast format as it is one of the most demanded new communication formats and offers a new format for scientific dissemination, since it can be deposited on any distribution platform to promote knowledge and free access.
The podcast format also facilitates content that can be consulted and enjoyed during the development of other activities. Compared to reading, which obviously requires us to be in front of a book, the podcast can be listened to in a car, for example, during a long trip, or in any other transport, or accompany us doing sports.
2. The growing interest of a sector of the young population also positions this format as possibly one of the most successful today. In this case, universities and research centers would be one of our main focuses in the communication of this first series "After all, the city", but it is also addressed to public institutions or private companies or any social agent involved in the problems that Today they concern the city: from the territorial imbalance (Episode 1: "From the countryside to the city") to the importance of food distribution (Episode 2: "Feeding the city") and the construction of a healthy environment, how mobility facilitates or hinders our personal or work activity, to the models that work to alleviate the economic imbalance, employment and the increase in technologies as part of the intangibles that cities manage, to energy and the paradigm shift to achieve be more sustainable and rebalance the desire for consumption in developed societies.
The focus of this podcast program is holistic and interdisciplinary: science, technology and humanities are articulated around the knowledge of the city, as an urban fact, as a socio-productive environment and as the challenge that must be faced from the political management of the next decades. Its main objective is, therefore, to achieve the maximum social impact from this activity of communication.
The podcast "The city, after all" does not offer solutions, but rather opens the debate so that the people who listen to it have a better knowledge of reality and can approach it from a more responsible and committed critical position:
1. From the city to the countryside: territorial approach and local research.
2. Feeding the city: policies for food sustainability from global to local context.
3. The city in motion: mobility as a paradigm, but different in every city (bicycle or electrical depends on local habits)
4. Economy and the city: progress, housing and well-being is a decision of political local agents.
5. The city of intangibles: technology is an incredible reality that we take part as global humans.
6. The energy of cities: crisis and climate change. Countries and cities must work together, but the problematics requiered local attention.
Audience.
The data shown below is extracted from the podcast hosting platforms Spreaker (data from Spotify and Google Podcasts) and iVoox.
As of October 31, 2022, the four published episodes have a total of 4,440 organic traffic listeners:
• From Spotify, 4,005 listeners
• From Google Podcasts, 220 listeners
• From iVoox, 130 listeners
• From other players, 85 listens
These 4,440 listeners are distributed by episodes as follows:
• Episode 1 (December 2021), 2,170 listeners
• Episode 2 (January 2022), 1,200 listeners
• Episode 3 (March 2022), 655 listeners
• Episode 4 (July 2022), 415 listeners
Almost 80% of the audience that follows the podcast does so from Spain. Chile, Argentina, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States are among the main audiences for this program that has been heard in more than 30 countries.
Both the 2030 and 2050 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals are part of the strategic objectives that frame the line of research, although due to its informative component of the program, this more political vision is not affected, but rather tends to be led accessible and open to any position of any person whose interest is the city, understood as a means of exchange and as a space for improvement in the ability and coexistence of people.
